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Make Architecture into Landscape: Low-Carbon Apartment

2024-06-13 author：Kongjian Yu Source：Designed Ecologies The Landscape Architecture of Kongjian Yu . Switzerland: Birkhauser Basel, pp.242-245.
Abstract：
Buildings use more than 30 percent of over-all energy in China.Forty billion squaremeters (430 billion square feet)of interiorbuilding space exist there now and annuallyincrease at 2 billion square meters (22 billionsquare feet),but only 5 percent of this new production is energy efficient.The annualenergy consumption for air-conditioning is equivalent to the energy produced annually by ten Three Gorges Dams and accounts for 20 percent of the overall energy consump-tion in China.If one takes into account the fact that 50 percent of global annual new building space is in China,the importance ofmaking residences energy efficient is clear. This project showcases how a landscape architect can let nature do the work to make homesgreener.

文章来源：Kongjian Yu. (2012). Make Architecture into Landscape: Low-Carbon Apartment. In: William S.Saunders. Designed Ecologies The Landscape Architecture of Kongjian Yu. Switzerland: Birkhauser Basel, pp.242-245.